In Chapter 2, Identity and Access Management for Users, we understand the basics of the IAM options for Azure users. This is very important, since our work to implement a fine grained security in each Azure Service can be easily frustrated by a weak administrative authentication mechanism. This is why we talked about the various security options of a Microsoft account, along with the use of Azure AD users to authenticate against Azure itself.

However, Azure AD is a growing IAM service itself with great integration options for custom applications. In Chapter 3, Platform as a Service and Chapter 4, Infrastructure as a Service we talked about security while using PaaS and IaaS services, respectively. This chapter covers the following:

These two services help developers to build the security aspects of an application. The first, from the developers' perspective, is an IAM service, useful to plug an authentication...